My Living Will - Courtesy of Maxine!

As you may know I am an Attorney. A friend sent this to me a month or so ago and I just got around to looking at the email yesterday. It so happened I was preparing Living Wills for some clients and this sure perked up my day! I had to share the smile. I have made a few revisions, noted in red, to personalize this for me! *GRIN*

I,  MAXINE MARTHA,  being of sound mind and body, (ya think?)
 do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.
Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands
of pinhead politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology
if their lives depended on it,
or lawyers and doctors interested in simply
running up the bills (yours truly excluded).
If a reasonable amount of time passes 
and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:

Glass of wine
Chocolate
Margarita
Sex
Chocolate Martini
Cold Beer Books
Chocolate
Sex
Chicken fried steak
Cream Gravy Audio Books
Chocolate
Mexican Food
Chocolate
French Fries
Sex
Chocolate
Pizza
Chocolate Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Cup of Tea
Chocolate
Sex
Chocolate
Kindle with Books 

 It should be presumed that I won't ever get better.  
When such a determination is reached, 
I hereby instruct my appointed person 
and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the
tubes and call it a day.

Have a Happy Tuesday!

Winners of Tuesday Comment 4/13 Title Game

Thank you to CHERYL, LLEHN and MARGIE for playing the Title Game in last week's Tuesday Comment Giveaway! I really thought that was a fun thing to do with our books!
I did put 1-3 in the random generator and then decided that you should all win!
I like to reward faithful commenters!

So Cheryl and Margie can pick a book from the Friday Pick List and Llehn can pick a book for $5.00 or under  from Book Depository. E-mail me with your choices and thanks again for playing.

Comment Tuesday Giveaway April 13, 2010: Titillating Titles

TUESDAY

I mentioned during the Readathon minichallenge post that I had seen this game at Riding With The Top Down and thought it was great fun.  I used my review books and a few selected TBR's in the Saturday story post. The books here are all from books won over the past few months.

Here are a few fun sentences created from my books.  Can you make some from your books?  List them by titles or you can take pictures if you want.  You aren't limited to three that is just how I set them up. Actually the top nine make their own story.
A winner will be selected randomly from all Comments on this post and will get to pick a book from the Friday Pick List.

 Found Love

Passionate Love

Lost Love

 

Two different fallen loves:

The Promise
Led Astray by A Rake
Another Man's Baby

Tempting Fate

Fallen

Grave Sins

Comment Tuesday - Giveaway; Topic: Being Homeless

TUESDAY

The review posted today is Hearts of Compassion by Eryn Grace.  The story revolves around a homeless shelter.

I have never been homeless but I always try to be mindful that "there, but for the grace of God, go I."
My husband and I did “downsize” at one point to get a handle on debt and maintain our family when I unexpectedly lost a good paying job.  We went from a $150,000.00 home to a $55,000.00 home and were able to be debt free except for the mortgage within three years.

I have had occasion to work with people (clients or church friends) who have had to struggle when they lost their jobs and couldn’t keep their homes.  I have also seen people who refused to downsize and ended up losing everything.

For this week's Comment Drawing, please comment on the review or share an experience you have had regarding the homeless or downsizing. A comment on either post will be counted as an entry and a meaningful comment on both will be two entries.  The winner will get to pick a book from the Friday Pick lists or a gift card if international.

I have been doing Tuesday comment Giveaways now for several weeks.  I have decided to extend the drawing deadline from Tuesday's post to the following Monday at 10pm Centeral with winner to be announced (hopefully) on the next Tuesday. This will hopefully allow a few more people to comment who might not be able to get to the post right away.

Martha's March Movie Madness - Contest!

My family and I have this habit of picking up lines from movies.  So today is Martha's March Movie Madness!  Your goal, *should you chose to accept it *, is to identify the ten (10) movies the quotes came from.  So we do not give away the answers PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER HERE but e-mail me your answers at mesreads@gmail.com. 

I will do a drawing from all entries that get ALL of them correct and I will do a second drawing from all OTHER entries.  So even if you miss a few you will still have a chance.
The winner with ALL correct answers will get to choose a book or $5.00 gift card from the Friday Pick books AND a credit of $5.00 for a book from eTreasures Publishing.  
The winner from the other entries will get to choose a book or $5.00 gift card from the Friday Pick books.

1.  "They never call, they never write."

2.  "We'll do that!"

3.  "100% pure old fashioned homegrown."

4.  "Don't worry. I've done this before...once."

5.  "We're sending someone in to negotiate."

6.  "I'd die for you."

7.  "She's in good hands."

8.  "The secret's in the sauce."

9.  " What am I supposed to do? Walk around with their little corpses stuck to my finger nails?"

10.  "And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!"  ***  I liked this so much I looked up the full poem:
 

"All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing - And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!"And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Work Without Hope


*Bonus - what movie is *that phrase* (in the third line of this post) from?

Please comment here to let me know you sent an entry and for extra fun when you comment tell me one of YOUR favorite movie quotes and I'll try to guess the movie!
I will pick winners Thursday night at 10 pm central and announce them on Friday.

There is no way to keep people from searching quotes online. AND I know that if it were me I would be trying to search the answers!! I am thinking - hoping - one of these might really get you stumped! *BG*
I'll check answers and if everyone gets stumped by the same question I may add hints if it looks like its needed and I may extend the deadline.  That means I will allow updated answers so check back Wednesday and Thursday to see if I have added hints.

I have used a similar but shorter list for fun at the (SaSR) Sweet and Sensual Romance Tuesday R&R. They have to name the character and movie or show for five quotes.

Tuesday COMMENTS Giveaway - How Should You Stay Warm?

I was working on a March comment post for today but we lost Internet connection last night so it didn't get done. I will save it for next week and here is a hint: tone up your movie memories!

I know it is finally starting to warm up a bit but before Spring officially gets here I'll ask the question:

HOW SHOULD YOU STAY WARM?

 My answer suits me just fine!

You Should Stay Warm by Cuddling
You are a caring, kind person who really gets happiness from being around others.
And a cold night is the perfect excuse to cuddle up with the person (or creature) you love the most.

You are nurturing and compassionate. You always make sure that everyone is warm on a cold night.
You love the calm and quiet that comes in the middle of winter. You feel at peace when everyone else is at peace.

So take the test and tell us How YOU should stay warm!

I will be posting two reviews at the blog  in just a bit.  Comment on this post or the Tuesday Review posts to be entered in the drawing for a book from the Friday Pick list! Winner will be chosen through random.org and announced on Friday.
I hope everyone has a great day and stays warm!

Comment Contest - What is Your Favorite Romantic Place?

Pueblo Bonito in Cabo from our balcony
My Review post today is Holiday in Bologna by Lindsay Townsend.  The heroine takes a vacation trip to Italy to meet her father's family and maybe she finds love?  This got me to wondering if anyone else had romance on a special vacation trip?  Or...what romantic places did we go to on your honeymoon?  My DH and I went to Marsh Harbor in the Abacos and had a wonderful time!  We will celebrate 25 years this November! Wow- time flies.

Madeira, Portugal from the Rotterdam Ship

Then I tried to think what my favorite romantic setting is/would be.  A transatlantic cruise with a stop in Madeira, Portugal? A mountain cabin with a nice warm romantic fire?  A resort suite in Cabo San Lucas with a nice hot tub? A River Rhine cruise?  A Manor Hotel in Stratford-Upon-Avon (birthplace of Shakspeare)? A resort apartment on Fowl Cay in the Bahamas? Or the boat trip through the Eleuthera Islands?  I've been fortunate enough to visit all of these places with my husband.  I think the nice thing for us is that we are comfortable even at home so we don't necessarily need to travel to a romantic place!

So then I asked my husband what his favorite romantic place is. 
Now I am going to let you guess his answer!

To Enter this giveaway:

1.  Comment here telling me if you fell in love on vacation or where you honeymooned or if you have a favorite romantic getaway!  Or what is your favorite romantic setting from a book? All comments will go in a drawing for one winner to win their book choice (gift card for overseas winner) from the Friday pick lists.

2.  Take a guess at my husband's answer!  The first person to get it right will win a book choice from the Friday pick list.  All other correct answers will go in a drawing for one winner to win a book choice from the Friday pick list.

3.  Comment here first but then if you comment on the review also you will get an extra entry!

Winners to be picked Thursday night at 10:00 pm Central.

[These are my pictures above.]

Recommend a Paranormal Read - Comment Giveaway

Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Sometime last week I had a topic I wanted to post this week.  Then a cold befuddled me and I can't remember it! [That's my story and I'm sticking to it!]

So instead I decided to seek recommendations from the crowd!  True I do not need a lot of new books as I have plenty. BUT sometimes I feel like reading something different.  The past week or so I have been thinking paranormal.


I have read or listened to all of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris.  I just checked and I have to wait until May for book #10 Dead in the Family.






I have also read or listened to all of the Rachel Morgan Hallows series by Kim Harrison. Looks like the newest, #8, Black Magic Sanctions, is coming out February 23 so I don't have too long to wait for that one.  I hope it will be at Audible!

Then there is the Karen Chance 

Cassandra Palmer series.

I have read or listened to those so far too.

Book #5 isn't due out until Summer 2011 

so I'll be waiting a while for that one.   

Touch the Dark is Book #1.

I enjoyed Red Fire by Deidre Knight and I have Red Kiss and also Parallel Attraction to read.





So do you see a pattern here?  I like my paranormals in series it seems!  Now lets look for something a bit different --- how about a good werewolf book?  Or a good Dragon Shapshifter - I haven't read too many of those and think I'd like them.  Or other shifters too.
I'm looking for more choices and need your help!

What books would you like to recommend for me to look at when I really need a different paranormal read?

COMMENT TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:  All comments will go into a drawing for a Friday Pick choice - a book for US or Canadian visitor or $5.00 gift card for an international visitor.  I will choose the winner by random.org after midnight Thursday to post on Friday.